The problem is in part due to the variety of time/task management methodologies available. Getting Things Done (GTD) is the most popular today and therefore many tasks apps implement GTD in some manner. I use some GTD concepts, but I find that apps that implement GTD tend to be complicated by too many features.
NOTEPLAN 3 MAC
In my opinion OmniFocus 3, which seems very popular amongst the Mac and iOS folks, is a case in point. To me OmniFocus is overwhelming to learn, so much so that overcoming that learning curve is not worth buying the app. My latest tasks app discovery is NotePlan, which is billed as a markdown calendar, todos, and notes app, while others claim it to be a digital bullet journal. The reference as a digital bullet journal is ironic given that bullet journals are considered the analog system for the digital age. However, the description as a bullet journal is apt in that the app simply maintains a daily list of tasks either accomplished (journal) or to be done (ToDo) and it uses symbols common to bullet journals for completed, scheduled, and deferred items. So far I’ve stuck with NotePlan for a little more than a month, which is a bit of an accomplishment. I think the main reason why NotePlan has “stuck” is that it is simple enough to learn fully and seems to fit well in my workflow. What I’ve found I like the most is how NotePlan enables you to carry forward incomplete tasks between each day, which is automation of the process I learned during those first Franklin Planner classes I attended in the ’90s. The process forces me to review my incomplete tasks and think about what I want to do each day. Alfred's new workflow components make it really quick and easy to work with extensible tools like NotePlan.If I find that I repeatedly forward a task from day to day to day, I ask myself whether it is something that I really need to get done and whether rather than being on a daily list should the item be moved to a Someday list. I mainly utilises Ruby scripts and NotePlan's excellent x-callback-url API with Alfred's powerful script filter inputs. I've only tried this locally on my machine, but have been careful to use relative paths so hopefully it will work for others as well.
I even added a little tool I use personally for creating link notes from URLs. The BuJo style retrospectives and migrations have finally freed me of the dreaded "someday/maybe" list, or as I call it, the "probably/never" list of dread.Īs awesome as it is, I needed a few handy tools to ease the transition from Wunderlist, like being able to jump straight to a specific text note from anywhere, ubiquitous capture of todos, and fuzzy search for generating wiki links and hashtags. NotePlan allows me to stay on top of not just _what_ I'm doing, but by providing a simple Bullet Journal style implementation, I'm able to keep that aligned with my goals while being mindful of _why_ I'm doing it.
NOTEPLAN 3 SOFTWARE
I work, and so effectively live, in the digital space, specifically in software engineering, so a paper-based system really doesn't help capture my daily minutiae which is largely comprised of things like URLs, code snippets, and other fragments of digital information. NotePlan finally seems to be the missing piece of the puzzle for me. I'm not in anyway affiliated with either, but I'm a huge nerd for productivity systems, and also into mindfulness and stoic philosophy, but had yet to find a system that brought everything together.
NOTEPLAN 3 FOR MAC
It's a plain-text based Bullet Journal style todos, calendar, and notes app for Mac and iOS.īullet Journal is an analogue system that describes itself as a mindfulness practice disguised as a productivity system: New year, new productivity system, and this time I'm all in with NotePlan:
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